Donald Trump Jr. announced Monday that he will join Calsi, a prediction market that allows users to bet on political developments, as a strategic advisor.
“On election night at Mar-a-Lago, while biased news outlets called the race a coin toss, my family and close friends used prediction market @Kalshi to make sure we were better than the fake news media. I knew I won hours early,” Trump Jr. wrote. Post to X.
Trump Jr. advises his father, President-elect Trump, and is influential within the MAGA movement.
“I immediately knew I had to contribute to their mission. Today, I am proud to announce that I will be joining Kalsi as a strategic advisor,” Trump Jr. posted, adding, “Bet on whether Biden will pardon. The time has come,” he quipped. Fauci and Liz Cheney. ”
Carusi was at the center of a legal battle earlier this year as courts considered whether to allow betting on the 2024 federal election. In October, a federal appeals court refused to block a lower court's decision to allow Calci to offer a betting market on federal elections.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has blocked Mr. Kalsi from allowing buyers to bet on which party will control the House and Senate after the next election, saying it would undermine election integrity. He asked the appellate court to do so.
Kalsi on Monday wondered how many executive orders Trump would issue on his first day in office, whether President Biden would issue a pre-emptive pardon, or how many senators would vote to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. It offered bettors the opportunity to bet on who would vote.
